Occupation Actor, Screenwriter Role Film actor Name Vasily Livanov | Years active 1959–present Albums Бременские музыканты | |
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Full Name Vasily Borisovich Livanov Born 19 July 1935 (age 89) ( 1935-07-19 ) Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR(now Moscow, Russian Federation) Spouse Yelena Livanova (m. 1972), Alina Engelhardt (m. 1958–1970) Children Anastasya Livanova, Nikolay Livanov, Boris Livanov Parents Boris Livanov, Evgenia Kazimirovna Livanova Movies Sherlock Holmes and Dr W, The Bremen Town Mu, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Gena the Crocodile, Letter Never Sent Similar People | ||
Vasily livanov at the sherlock holmes museum
Vasily Borisovich Livanov MBE, FMF, PAR (Russian: Васи́лий Бори́сович Лива́нов; born 19 July 1935) is a Russian film actor, screenwriter and animator. He was named People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1988.
Contents
- Vasily livanov at the sherlock holmes museum
- The Blue Bird 1970 Sinyaya Ptitsa English subtitles Russian animation
- Biography
- Sherlock Holmes
- Personal life
- References
The Blue Bird 1970 Sinyaya Ptitsa - English subtitles Russian animation
Biography
Livanov's father, Boris Livanov, was a prominent actor of the Moscow Art Theatre. Vasily was brought up in the artistic milieu, as many Soviet/Russian actors (such as Olga Knipper and Alla Tarasova) worked with his father and frequented the Livanov house.
Livanov graduated from the Vakhtangov Theatre school and started his film career in 1959. His breakthrough role came in the 1963 adaptation of Vasily Aksyonov's Colleagues, in which he co-starred with Vasily Lanovoy and Oleg Anofriev.
Livanov's rather erratic bohemian lifestyle derailed his film career. He made very few appearances in the movies produced in the late 1960s and 1970s, using his newly acquired hoarse voice to become the voice behind multiple popular Soviet cartoon characters – Gena the Crocodile, Udav (the snake) from 38 Parrots (Russian: 38 попугаев). His other contribution to the Soyuzmultfilm cartoon industry was co-writing the screenplay for the animated film Town Musicians of Bremen, a modernised adaptation of the eponymous folktale. He also directed a few animated films, e.g. The Blue Bird.
On 20 February 2006 Livanov became an Honorary MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) "for service to the theatre and performing arts".
Sherlock Holmes
In the late 1970s and in the 1980s, Livanov returned to film stardom in what became the greatest success of his acting career: the role of Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles and other Holmes TV series directed by Igor Maslennikov.
Those movies were filmed between 1979 and 1986, with the latter four stories forming the plot of a standalone big-screen feature entitled The Twentieth Century Approaches. Vasily Livanov played Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin played Doctor Watson.
On 27 April 2007 a sculpture featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as portrayed by Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin was opened on the Smolenskaya embankment alongside the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow (sculptor Andrey Orlov).
Personal life
Vasily Livanov was a close friend of Vitaly Solomin and Rina Zelyonaya, who played Doctor Watson and Mrs. Hudson. As he writes in his memoir,
It happens so that when someone passes away, we customarily treat his actions and related events as the thing of the past. But everything about my beloved closest friend and partner Vitaly Solomin has become a part of my way of life, my conscience, so for me it will become the thing of the past only when I pass away too.